1898 The Spanish Story of the Armada, Queens School

Queens School Adelaide Prize

The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays

The Spanish Story of the Armada, Antonio Perez, An Unsolved Historical Riddle, Saint Teresa, The Templars, The Norway Fjords and Norway Once More

By James Anthony Froude

[Prize Binding for Queens School North Adelaide]

Half dark green calf leather and light green cloth boards, gilt title on dark maroon label, gilt decoration to the compartments together with gilt decoration to the front board, school prize label to the front paste down dated 1899.

The crest for Queens School, North Adelaide to the front board in gilt, the motto Regina Decus Et Tutamen Nostrum under a gilt crown.

Prize plate to the front paste down signed by R. G. Jacomb-Hood.

Scarce Prize Binding for this school which was established in 1891 and ran until 1949.

Queens College was a privately owned and run school for boys on Barton Terrace, North Adelaide. It ran continuously from 1891 to 1949, an Australian record for a proprietary boys' school.

In 1885 Rev. Thomas Field (later Canon Field) and Frank Dobbs opened the Adelaide School Collegiate for the Anglican Church in the Christ Church schoolrooms at c. 79–85 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide. In 1889 Dobbs retired and was succeeded by the Rev. H. A. Brookshank, M.A. Principal.

In 1891 the school was taken over as a private venture by J. H. Lindon and G. L. Heinemann, and renamed The Queens School in honor of Queen Victoria.

Heinemann, a member of the famous publishing family, left at the end of 1895 to return to Britain, and Lindon, who by this time was bed-ridden, took on as partner R. G. Jacomb-Hood. Lindon died in 1897